[Garry Johnson]

Garry “Scoot” Johnson’s Conventions

What I learned: Structure. Or at least the beginning of it. Which is the very thing I need. I have all these ideas in my head; I need a system, strategy, method, whatever you want to call it, to get it out of me, onto paper, and, ultimately, into the world.

Concept: In an attempt to secure the release of their leader, a militia group attempts to kidnap the college student son of the President of the United States, resulting in him going on the run with one of his protectors – a young female agent.

Conventions

Hero: Female rookie Secret Service Action

Demand For Action: Attempted kidnapping of the President’s son.

Mission: Protect the President’s son and make it safely back to the White House.

Antagonist: Militia seeking to use the President’s son as leverage to secure the release of their leader.

Escalating Action: Militia members and crooked government agents in collusion with the militia members, including members of the very security detail she was working, work together to stop her, capture the son and, failing all else, put the blame for everything on her.

• This reply was modified 2 years, 3 months ago by  Garry Johnson.

[Garry Johnson]

Greetings all. Pleasure to be here. Been looking to expand my screenwriting knowledge for some time and think this will help me immensely.

1. Name? Garry (nickname is Scoot)

2. How many scripts you’ve written? A short during film school; no features … yet. Have three ideas presently am looking to develop — a dark drama and two action (one of which is what I will be working to develop here).

3. What you hope to get out of the class? Hoping to be able to flesh out the idea for my action movie so I can develop it into a full-length feature and secure Kat McNamara as my lead.

4. Something unique, special, strange or unusual about you? I am obsessed with reading true crime and drink Mello Yello like Hemingway drank whiskey. 🙂